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Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance (Spectre) Paperback – January 24, 2014

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In bold and intelligently written essays, historian Peter Linebaugh takes aim at the thieves of land, the polluters of the seas, the ravagers of the forests, the despoilers of rivers, and the removers of mountaintops. From Thomas Paine to the Luddites and from Karl Marx—who concluded his great study of capitalism with the enclosure of commons—to the practical dreamer William Morris who made communism into a verb and advocated communizing industry and agriculture, to the 20th-century communist historian E. P. Thompson, Linebaugh brings to life the vital commonist tradition. He traces the red thread from the great revolt of commoners in 1381 to the enclosures of Ireland, and the American commons, where European immigrants who had been expelled from their commons met the immense commons of the native peoples and the underground African American urban commons, and all the while urges the ancient spark of resistance.

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  • Phillip Woodard
    5.0 out of 5 stars How private land and in turn the beginnings of capitalism were created.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2024
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    It's hard today to even conceptualize an era in which the commons existed. I have found from another source that the New York Indians sold Staten Island 27 times. Because the land was so plentiful land ownership wasn't realized by the Indians. I can even imagine some Indians saying "Can we sell them the moon too?"
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  • jonnyapplesaid
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2017
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    Peter Linebaugh is a superb historian who knows how to make complex subjects accessible without dumbing it down.
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  • deepwater
    4.0 out of 5 stars Must reading, tho not easy, for those involved in land issues, social justice.
    Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2014
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    This was not easy to read. It's not even particularly well organized nor was it meant to be. It's a compilation of writings by Linebaugh that are important to a true understanding of how we got to our misguided assumptions concerning land, and private property. We know that the original Americans (Native ones) did not feel they "owned" land. Indeed, early New England settlers had as the heart of each settlement the Commons. Boston still has one. But what happened? Take the time and effort and read this. You will find out.
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  • Tex.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Thought provoking
    Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2016
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    The book is educational.
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  • ncearl
    1.0 out of 5 stars An unreformed communist truly believes that communism without totalalinarism is possible and the ideal.
    Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2014
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    I expected a really interesting book about tensions between community and private property. Instead, I read contorted logic by someone who enjoys the benefits of capitalism and private property but seems to have somehow convinced himself that if communism were just free of
    totalitarian leaders, utopia could come. I read the book looking for interesting ideas and solutions. Not so.
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  • David A. Bollier
    5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring, illuminating historical essays about enclosures of the commons
    Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2014
    It is always refreshing to read Peter Linebaugh’s writings on the commons because he brings such rich historical perspectives to bear, revealing the commons as both strangely alien and utterly familiar. With the added kick that the commoning he describes actually happened, Linebaugh’s journeys into the commons leave readers outraged at enclosures of long ago and inspired to protect today's endangered commons.

    This was my response, in any case, after reading Linebaugh’s latest book, Stop, Thief! The Commons, Enclosures and Resistance, which is a collection of fifteen chapters on many different aspects of the commons, mostly from history. The book starts out on a contemporary note by introducing “some principles of the commons” followed by “a primer on the commons and commoning” and a chapter on urban commoning. For readers new to Linebaugh, he is an historian at the University of Toledo, in Ohio, and the author of such memorable books as The Magna Carta Manifesto and The London Hanged.

    Stop, Thief! is organized around a series of thematic sections that collect previously published essays and writings by Linebaugh. One section focuses on Karl Marx (“Charles Marks,” as he was recorded in British census records) and another on British enclosures and commoners (Luddites; William Morris; the Magna Carta; “enclosures from the bottom up”). A third section focuses on American commons (Thomas Paine; communism and commons) before concluding with three chapters on First Nations and commons.

    This sampler reflects Linebaugh’s eclectic passions as a historian. They are united by the overarching themes of commoning, enclosure and resistance, as the subtitle puts it. This framework makes for some unanticipated historical excursions, such as the chapter on the theft of forest products and abolition of forest rights in 19th century Germany, which made quite an impression on Karl Marx. Another chapter – Linebaugh’s foreword to E.P. Thompson’s book on William Morris – situates Morris as a communist, artist, prophet and revolutionary.

    Some of the historical explorations journey into areas that are frankly obscure to me, so I don't always appreciate the fuller context and circumstances. But this is part of the pleasure and fun -- to be introduced to new areas of commons history. Linebaugh describes a host of historical commons that have receded into the mists of history:

    “the Irish knowledge commons, the agrarian commons of the Nile, the open fields of England enclosed by Acts of Parliament, the Mississippi Delta commons, the Creek-Chickasaw-Cherokee commons, the llaneros and pardos of Venezeula, the Mexican communidades de los naturales, the eloquently expressed nut-and-berry commons of the Great Lakes, the customs of the sikep villagers of Java, the subsistence commons of Welsh gardeners, the commons of the street along the urban waterfront, the lascars crammed in dark spaces far from home, and the Guyanese slaves building commons and community….”

    I only wish that some of these passing references had been elaborated upon; they conjure up exotic lost worlds unto themselves.

    It is fitting that the concluding chapter explores the “invisibility of the commons” – our problem now, as then. Linebaugh notes how such astute minds as George Orwell, William Wordsworth and C.L.R. James failed to see the commons as commons in their times. Since then, scholarship has helped to illuminate the importance of customary rights, of grazing commons, and of indigenous commons, notes Linebaugh. “What is gained from seeing them as commoning?” he asks. “An answer arises in the universality of expropriation, and a remedy to these crimes must be found therefore in reparation for what has been lost and taken.”
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  • Katherine Forrest
    2.0 out of 5 stars Important concept, disappointing presentation
    Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2014
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    This appears to be an unedited collection of essays and commentary on various historic events related to the persistence of the concept of a commons, which antedates moves to enclose (privatize) property. Resistance to enclosure has occurred, and continues to occur, in many ways. While there is valuable historical information in this book, it's a struggle to find it due to the lack of organization.

    The notion of the commons--the recognition and importance of that which we all share, and our responsibility for protecting it--is not just something that many individuals have acted out in their daily lives. It is also a fundamental value of contemporary political progressives [...] I was particularly disappointed by Linebaugh's book, because the idea of the Commons is such a timely one, impacting people around the world.
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  • Unknown
    3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2014
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  • R. P. Whiteman
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book - it will open your eyes to what's really going on
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 13, 2018
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    Educational and enlightening book. Confirmed things I thought instinctively and opened my eyes even more. A must read.
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  • senni max
    5.0 out of 5 stars STOP THIEF
    Reviewed in Italy on February 25, 2016
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    Do not let commons be espropriated by uncaring, selfish people . Water, earth, , labour rights ....have to be protected.....
    This book explains why .....by giving right consideration to those men who worked for this in the past .
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  • andrew g
    2.0 out of 5 stars Almost unreadable
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 20, 2024
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    I was so looking forward to this book but it proved to be almost unreadable

    Every ******* paragraph wanders off topic and into irrelevances - another edit or two could have put so many references out of the main text so that you could concentrate on the argument / points being made….

    I can’t really comment on the book as I find it pretty much unreadable

    I’ve given it 2 stars but really I don’t know how to rate something I cannot read
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